Specialist Study 1: Urban Stories - Power, Poverty and Conflict

- films focusing on the struggle between a community and the ruling power structures

- films concerned with ‘living with crime’ (extending the FM2 British Cinema option)

Characters- some were represented as being gangsters and some were shown trying to escape the crimes of the town

Plot- characters trying to escape and wanted to show who the gangsters were

Themes- poverty, crime, conflict, Setting- slums of Rio How may the film address the issue ofo The struggle between a community and the ruling power

structureso ‘living with crime’- children running away from crime and

guns, people struggling with living in their community

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi1937440793/

Task: Watch the film trailers and make notes on the following areas. Be as detailed as you can

Characters- one main character who was stuck in the crime culture, which seems to be part of their everyday life

Plot- Follows a young youth and the audience follow him growing up

Themes- poverty, crime and conflict Setting- slums, and a difference between city life How may the film address the issue ofo The struggle between a community and the ruling power

structureso ‘living with crime’- crime seems to be part of their culture

and the characters cannot escape

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi1472332057/

Task: Watch the film trailers and make notes on the following areas. Be as detailed as you can

Task: Create a mind map of the similarities and differences you think the films pose?

You may wish to consider the following: Issues Themes Location Political / economic climate Characters values

Similarities The setting is similar between the two films Guns= power Poverty The difference between city life and life in the

slums Victims Differences T- living with crime, COG- wants to escape T is set in Africa, COG is set in Rio

In preparation for next lesson research into the social and economic conditions of the Favelas in Brazil and the Townships of Johannesburg, South Africa.

History (how and why they were created Residents (who lives there) Living Conditions (work / crime /

sanitation)